Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, and Alan Arkin are featured in "Rendition" (Oct . 12, in which a C.I.A. agent turns against the practice of secret interrogations abroad.
But this week, with Mr Obama bunkered on Martha's Vineyard, an ugly past roared into the present.On August 24th the Department of Justice released a report on the CIA's interrogation of detainees abroad, written by the agency's internal watchdog in 2004.
He reports annually to the prime minister on the agencies' compliance with the new guidelines on the interrogation of detainees abroad, which were drawn up in response to a number of allegations of involvement in torture.
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for trial in a case against two psychologists contracted by the CIA to develop what became known as the agency's "enhanced interrogation program" deployed abroad in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Prosecutors in the bombings case, for example, had argued that the Fifth Amendment did not generally apply to interrogations of foreigners abroad, particularly where a suspect's only connection to the United States was the result of his criminal activity and the possibility of prosecution in this country.
The Obama administration says it may continue to send detainees abroad for interrogation, a practice that leaves suspects vulnerable to torture.
But details seemed consistent with what is known about the transfer of terrorism suspects abroad for interrogation and other agency practices.
But the binders included some documents that made specific reference to the C.I.A., and their details seem consistent with what is known about the transfer of terrorism suspects abroad for interrogation and with other agency practices.
An angry Iraqi scientist accused "Mafia-like" United Nations inspectors today of using his wife's illness in an attempt to lure him abroad for interrogation about Baghdad's nuclear programs.
Mr. Shibh was captured in Pakistan earlier this month and reportedly moved to an American military base abroad for interrogation, and his arrest is likely to complicate Mr. Moussaoui's trial.
